Yumileidi Cumbá

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Yumileidi Cumbá
Yumileidi Cumbá
Women's Athletics
Competitor for Flag of Cuba Cuba
Olympic Games
Gold Athens 2004 Shot put

Yumileidi Cumbá (born February 11, 1975 in Guantánamo) is a Cuban shot putter.

Her greatest season was 2004, when she won an Olympic gold medal and achieved a new personal best throw.

Her current personal best throw is 19.97 metres, achieved at the 2004 Ibero-American Championships in Huelva.

Her name means "You Milady", and is in the Cuban tradition of using odd, foreign-born names.

[edit] Achievements

Year Tournament Venue Result Extra
1992 World Junior Championships Seoul, South Korea 4th
1993 Central American and Caribbean Games Ponce, Puerto Rico 2nd
1994 World Junior Championships Lisbon, Portugal 2nd
1995 Pan American Games Mar del Plata, Argentina 3rd
1998 Central American and Caribbean Games Maracaibo, Venezuela 1st
World Cup Johannesburg, South Africa 4th
1999 World Indoor Championships Maebashi, Japan 5th
World Championships Seville, Spain 6th
Pan American Games Winnipeg, Canada 2nd
Universiade Palma, Spain 2nd
2000 Olympic Games Sydney, Australia 6th
2001 World Indoor Championships Lisbon, Portugal 5th
World Championships Edmonton, Canada 8th
Universiade Beijing, China 1st
2002 World Cup Madrid, Spain 2nd
2003 World Indoor Championships Birmingham, England 6th
Pan American Games Santo Domingo, Dom. Rep. 1st
2004 World Indoor Championships Budapest, Hungary 2nd
Olympic Games Athens, Greece 1st
2005 World Championships Helsinki, Finland 6th
World Athletics Final Monte Carlo, Monaco 7th
2006 World Indoor Championships Moscow, Russia 5th
World Athletics Final Stuttgart, Germany 4th
World Cup Athens, Greece 3rd
2007 World Championships Osaka, Japan 12th
Pan American Games Rio, Brazil 2nd

[edit] References

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Olympic Champions in the Women's Shot Put
1948: Micheline Ostermeyer • 1952: Galina Zybina • 1956: Tamara Tyshkevich • 1960: Tamara Press • 1964: Tamara Press • 1968: Margitta Gummel • 1972: Nadezhda Chizhova • 1976: Ivanka Hristova • 1980: Ilona Slupianek • 1984: Claudia Losch • 1988: Natalya Lisovskaya • 1992: Svetlana Krivelyova • 1996: Astrid Kumbernuss • 2000: Yanina Karolchyk • 2004: Yumileidi Cumbá


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